Several friends have sent this same story with pictures to me via email. It is sobering to see something like this, and knowing these things can happen, take some time out and check over all our vehicles (old and modern) for safety issues. Last June a fellow FB member was on his way to the York, PA, NSRA Street Rod Nationals in his early Ford PU. He inadvertently ran over a piece of steel laying on the highway and one of his tires projected that steel like a missile into his Poly gas tank. I believe someone traveling behind him saw what happened and somehow told him that he had a stream of gas spewing from the rear of his truck. He was able to safely pull off the road and shut his engine down before this lead to a more serious problem. He wound up draining all the gas from the Poly tank and bought an outboard motor gas tank with hose and squeeze ball. He put this tank into the back of his PU and connected the hose to his existing gas line and ran the rest of the way to York and then back home using this temporary hook up. Could have been a tragedy, but fortunately it was not.
